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Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa
Also known as	Dancing With The Stars
Genre	Dance Entertainment Reality show
Based on	Dancing With The Stars
Written by	Hemant Kher Manoj Muntashir
Directed by	Tania Bath Huzefa Qaiser
Creative directors	Priya Vagal Ankit Arora
Presented by	Parmeet Sethi Archana Puran Singh Rohit Roy Shiv Panditt Mona Singh Shweta Tiwari Sumeet Raghavan Ragini Khanna Kapil Sharma Drashti Dhami Ranvir Shorey Manish Paul Arjun Bijlani Rithvik Dhanjani Gauahar Khan
Judges	See Below
Narrated by	Vijay Vikram Singh
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	11
No. of episodes	303
Production
Executive producer	Sneha Menon
Producers	Deepali Handa Sameer Gogate
Cinematography	Surindra Rao Nitesh Choudhary
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	90–120 minutes
Production company	BBC Studios India
Original release
Network	Sony Entertainment Television
Release	7 September 2006 (2006-09-07) – 6 March 2011 (2011-03-06)
Network	Colors TV
Release	6 June 2016 (2016-06-06) – 27 November 2022 (2022-11-27)
Network	Sony Entertainment Television
Release	November 11, 2023 (2023-11-11) – present (present)

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is an Indian Hindi-language reality television show and the Indian version of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars. The first four seasons of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa were aired on Sony TV. Season fifth to tenth were aired Colors TV then again from season 11, the broadcasting network was changed back to Sony Entertainment Television.

The show pairs celebrities with professional dancers. Each couple performs predetermined dances and competes against the others for judges' points and audience votes. The couple receiving the lowest combined total of judges' points and audience votes is eliminated each week until only the champion dance pair remains.

The show's format is taken from the Strictly Come Dancing show on BBC One in the UK.^[1] and Dancing With The Stars. The show is also pre-recorded, unlike Strictly Come Dancing and other spin-offs.^[1] Of the spin offs, the Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is the only one that uses recorded tracks rather than live music with an in-house band.^[1] The title derives from "Jhalak Dikhlaja" (Let Me Have a Glimpse of You), a song from the film Aksar (2006), composed and sung by Himesh Reshammiya.

Although the show features mixed-sex couples, but the tenth season saw, for the first time, the participation of same-sex couple Dutee Chand and Raveena Choudhary^[2] (considering that Gaurav Gerainninth season performed as fictional character-Chutki).^[3][4]

The show airs its elimination on a Sunday in every season. The elimination procedure varied for number of seasons. The show adopted the following elimination methods:

• Judges' Pick from the bottom-two/three/four.
• Direct elimination based on combined judges' scores and public votes.
• Dance-off of bottom-two and judges' scoring.

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The first season of the dance reality show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa premiered on 7 September 2006 until 4 November 2006. The season was judged by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Shilpa Shetty and Farah Khan. The season was hosted by Parmeet Sethi and Archana Puran Singh. The winner was Mona Singh. The contestants were:

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 2 is the second season of the dance reality show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. It premiered on 28 September 2007 until 15 December 2007.

Shiamak Davar, Urmila Matondkar and Jeetendra were the judges. Bipasha Basu appeared as a guest judge. Rohit Roy and Mona Singh were the hosts. Prachi Desai and Deepak were the winners. The contestants were:

Celebrity	Notability	Professional partner	Result
Aadesh Srivastava	Music Composer	Tina Sachdeva	Eliminated 1st
Tapur Chatterjee	Model	Feroz Khan	Eliminated 2nd
Mini Mathur	Presenter	Hemu Sinha	Eliminated 3rd
Cyrus Broacha	Presenter	Rozita Rajput	Eliminated 4th
Sudha Chandran	Actress	Uma Shankar	Eliminated 5th
Mika Singh	Singer	Tanushree Rakshit	Eliminated 7th
Ronit Roy	Actor	Nicole Alvares	Eliminated 8th
Sonali Kulkarni	Actress	Toby Fernandez	Eliminated 9th
Mir Ranjan Negi	Hockey Player	Marischa Fernandes	Eliminated 10th
Jay Bhanushali	Actor	Bindi Khare	Third place
Sandhya Mridul	Actress	Javed Sanadi	Runners-up
Prachi Desai	Actress	Deepak Singh	Eliminated 6th
			Winners

The season began on 27 February 2009.

Celebrity	Notability	Professional partner	Result
Bhagyashree Dassani	Actress	Toby Fernandez	Eliminated 1st
Ugesh Sarcar	Magician	Tina Sachdeva	Eliminated 2nd
Anand Raaj Anand	Music composer & Singer	Rozita Rajput	Eliminated 3rd
Mohinder Amarnath	Cricketer	Lillian Mendes	Eliminated 4th
Ram Kapoor	Actor	Marischa Fernandes	Eliminated 5th
Monica Bedi	Actress	Javed Sanadi	Eliminated 7th
Shilpa Shukla	Actress	Nishant Bhat	Eliminated 8th
Parul Chauhan	Actress	Deepak Singh	Eliminated 9th
Hard Kaur	Rapper	Savio Barnes	Eliminated 10th
Karan Singh Grover	Actor	Nicole Alvares	Third place
Gauahar Khan	Model	Himanshu Gadani (earlier Hanif Hilal)	Eliminated 6th
			Runners-up
Bhaichung Bhutia	Footballer	Sonia Jaffer	Winners

The fourth season began on 12 December 2010.

The season began in June 2012. The season saw a change in its presenters and judges. Manish Paul and season 4 contestant Ragini Khanna was confirmed to host the series. Madhuri Dixit and Remo D'Souza was retained as two of the judges whilst Karan Johar joined the panel replaced Malaika Arora.

The sixth season began in June 2013. Paul retained his position as the presenter whilst Kapil Sharma replaced Ragini Khanna. Dixit, D’Souza and Johar was also returned to the judging panel.

The season began in June 2014. There was a change it it’s presenters as Ranvir Shorey and season 6 winner Drashti Dhami were roped in as the hosts. Dhami later got replaced by Manish Paul.

The season began in July 2015. Shahid Kapoor and season 6 runner-up Lauren Gottlieb replaced Dixit and D'Souza whilst Karan Johar was retained as judges. Manish Paul was retained as the presenter.

The ninth season began in July 2016. PManish Paul was confirmed to return as the presenter of the series. In June 2016, Jacqueline Fernandez, Karan Johar and Ganesh Hegde were confirmed as the judges.^[6]

The tenth season began in September 2022,^[7] making its comeback after a hiatus of five years.^[8] Madhuri Dixit and Karan Johar retained their positions as judges, whilst season 9 contestant Nora Fatehi came onboard as well.^[9] Terence Lewis came as a guest judge for two weeks.^[10] Manish Paul also returned as the presenter.^[11] Arjun Bijlani came as a guest anchor for a week.^[12]

The eleventh season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa airs on Sony Entertainment Television after 12 years after the change in broadcasting network. The judging panel includes Arshad Warsi, Farah Khan and Malaika Arora. Season 5 2nd runner-up Rithvik Dhanjani and Season 3 runner-up Gauahar Khan joined as hosts.

Celebrity	Notability	Professional partner	Result
Aamir Ali	Bollywood and television actor	Sneha Singh	Eliminated 1st
Urvashi Dholakia	Bigg Boss winner and television actress	Vaibhav Ghuge	Eliminated 2nd
Rajiv Thakur	Actor and comedian	Suchitra Sawant	Eliminated 3rd
Vivek Dahiya	Bollywood and television actor	Lipsa Acharya	Eliminated 4th
Tanishaa Mukerji	Bollywood actress and Bigg Boss runner-up	Tarun Raj Nihalini	Eliminated 5th
Awez Darbar	Social media personality	Vaishnavi Patil	Withdrew
Glenn Saldanha	Radio jockey	Arundhati Garnaik	Eliminated 6th
Anjali Anand	Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani actress	Danny Fernandez	Eliminated 7th
Sangeeta Phogat	Wrestler	Bharat Ghare	Eliminated 8th
Karuna Pandey	Pushpa Impossible actress	Vivek Chachere	Eliminated 9th
Sagar Parekh	Anupamaa actor	Shivani Patel	Eliminated 10th
Shiv Thakare	Bigg Boss runner-up	Romsha Singh	Eliminated 11th
Sreerama Chandra	Indian Idol winner and playback singer	Sonali Kar	Finalists
Dhanashree Verma	Social media personality and Yuzvendra Chahal's wife	Sagar Bora
Adrija Sinha	Bollywood actress	Akash Thapa	Runners-up
Shoaib Ibrahim	Social Media personality and television actor	Anuradha Iyenagar
Manisha Rani	Social media personality and Bigg Boss OTT 2 2nd runner-up	Ashutosh Pawar	Winners

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